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Bengaluru or Kathmandu?

1,797 km apart, in India and Nepal. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Bengaluru is the better pick in January to September and November; Kathmandu in December; either in October.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Bengaluru 27° 1d 30° 1d 33° 2d 34° 2d 32° 10d 29° 13d 28° 16d 28° 18d 28° 15d 27° 16d 27° 9d 26° 4d
Kathmandu 17° 3d 19° 3d 22° 9d 25° 11d 25° 21d 27° 25d 26° 30d 26° 30d 26° 25d 24° 9d 21° 1d 18° 1d
Kathmandu, fare from Bengaluru ————————₹29,506—₹41,955—
Pick BengaluruBengaluruBengaluruBengaluruBengaluruBengaluruBengaluruBengaluruBengalurueitherBengaluruKathmandu

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month. Fares are the typical return from Bengaluru, in INR.

Before you go

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

Between them

1,797 km as the crow flies, about 3h 07m in the air.Nonstop · Nepal Airlines.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.